And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 158. A Puce for an Alpha

Pollux.

I was never a man who cared for envying other people and in all honesty, I had been a complete asshole over the past few weeks. Not only while being here, but also before we came here. My sister was my twin, and even though we were completely different and irritated the shit out of each other, I couldn’t tell her no.

The way she looked at me with pleading eyes asking me to help her because she believed more than anything that Lu- cas was being controlled, I couldn’t say no. I couldn’t let her down and not help her when she needed it most.

Even though I thought she was full of shit… even though I thought this was all pointless.

“You’re doing the right thing, Lux.” Trixie’s voice pulled me from my thoughts as she came to sit next to me at the table in the dining hall. I had been so against her initially, but the last few days, I had spent more time with her because of every- thing going on with Cassie.

She wasn’t like I had expected her to be and when I stared at her glowing green eyes and electric blue hair, I saw a wom- an far more exotic and beautiful than I ever saw before. A woman who was capable of so much, and yet had been so vastly misunderstood.

“Am I, though? I can’t help but feel she is wasting her time.”

Trixie sighed as she stared at me. I didn’t understand why she was so willing to stand by Cassie in this charade of trying to help a man who didn’t even want to be her mate. It was em- barrassing, and all she was doing was hurting herself even further.

“People act weird when they are in love, and even if he doesn’t want her, Cassie has a good heart. If you haven’t been able to tell already, Cassie sees things in people others over- look.”

There was something in Trixie’s eyes as she spoke that made me wonder if she was slightly directing that at me. If she wasn’t trying to say I overlooked things, and maybe also that I was acting weird.

All of it confused me to be honest, and as I tried to wrap my head around everything going on, Lucas walked back into the dining hall with Zia on his arm and every part of me want- ed to lose control. Every part of me wanted to rip him apart for what he was doing to my sister, and he must have felt my anger because when he looked at me, he smirked.

“Don’t…” Trixie softly placed a hand on my arm, “let it go. We are supposed to be helping her, not making things worse.”

fucking stand him. Even before we came here, Lu- cas was nothing but a thorn in my side. So many times I had

the edge of the table and stared at Lucas, who sat with a group of kids on the far side of the dining hall. His

him apart even more. But before I could do anything, Trixie stood beside me, her hand tightening around my arm. “Come on… let’s get out of

Trixie touched me. Begging to leave with her and forget all of the troubles I had. Yet, I

be like and

lead me from the

small laugh as we made our way to- wards the front door of the school, and out into the evening air. “You’re going to go back to your room. You have had a

as she gripped my arm tighter

it, sir. You are Mr. Grumpypants right now, and that isn’t safe for anyone.” Her teasing remark

feeling comfortable with a woman for the first time in a long time. She

listening to her chuck- le as she nodded her

ask if you can ask me

in a simple pair of leggings and an oversized

come up… I’m just going to catch up on some work.

though she was ener- getic at times and often annoyed others around her. To me, I found it comforting to be

the mate bond pulled me closer to her, or maybe it was just because

smiled, nodding her head with her hands clasped

at her words, and though at one point in time I would have been pissed by what she said, I wasn’t. She had a point,

your

I had with her before. From magic spells to summoning objects, she filled

to do that. You need

my room. Her mischievous eyes rolled as she shoved me a little and be- gan to let her eyes scan my room, taking in every inch of what I had around

stuff,” she murmured, letting her fin- gers dance along the photos on the wall and the items on my dresser. Since being here, I had been able to get someone un- der Odin to acquire a few more things from my home, includ-